DDAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME?
WHAT A CONCEPT!!!
Look at your phone.... it probably has the right time on it and maybe your computer.... but your microwave, stove, and any of those old clocks that have numbers and those little pointy things that go around and around if you put batteries in it from time to time are all out of synch with reality this morning. Well maybe... I have never really understood this daylights savings time. Yes.. I know was thing Benny F --Oh you know the kite flying bifocal guy who went overseas during revolutionary time and had himself a good old time-- invented the idea to help farmers by having their kids home from school to work while it was still light during planting season... You know just another way to get a return on your investment with kids LOL. So I know conceptually where it comes from. The question is about the "saving time" part. I don't know what that means. The seconds still tick away like that annoying clock on 60 minutes and thousands of time still fall through your personal hour glass.... so someone please explain this to me.
How exactly or where exactly do you save time. I've never seen the "First National Bank "Time Savings" account Or The Jefferson County Time Savings and Loan or Even the 45Second Community Credit Union.
Even if you could save time what would you save it in? Well I'm not exactly sure how much space time takes up but Einstein (sp) had a space/time formula maybeI should look it up. Myabe you can save this time in a shoebox or if you really save a lot of time maybe you need a big rubbermaid tub? I know one thing for sure you cannot save tin any Tupperware container because it would take you so long to find the right lid (if it even exists) that all the time you were saving would now be lost while looking for the lid.
But on the other hand maybe people really do believe they can save time. They like to go through the self-check out at many stores. Let'tslook at that a second. How many times a week do you go through the U-scan or whatever it's called at your local stores? I bet you go through twice maybe three times a week tops. Now on the other had you have a usually friendly cashier standing there who checks people out thousands of times a week--week after week. Do you really think you are faster at this than they are? Let's get real. Oh and even if you save all that check out time how do you know that you aren't going to get into your car and get to the stop light just as it turns red and then you wait for the minutes you just saved--nice work.
Okay.. I think I've beaten that dead horse....there's a different concept--quit beating horses dead or alive..
No what I want to talk about now is not the time you have to save---but the time you have to spend (or use). No matter what time your clock says or how many you move the hands of it--you only get a certain amount of time to spend on this planet (or maybe another planet someday) and so don't worry so much about how you save it-worry about how you give it away. Do you give it to efforts that you believe will make things better for others? Do you give your time to teaching other folks how t do things they want to learn? Do you spend time thinking about how to make someone smile everyday? In short, do you try to bring a little more peace and joy into the time we have? So that's most of what I have to say about this "savings time" except for this little rhyme.
I'm going to do my damn best to die empty
which means I'd given all I had to give
For how long I stick around is not for me to know
My concern my friends is how I choose to live
I'll use the gifts I have to do some hard things
And from time to time each of you I shall annoy
But with every trip around the sun that this old life brings
I'll be grateful and seek some peace and joy.
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